Christer Thordson

Board member

Christer Thordson is a former General Counsel and director of IKEA Group (INGKA Holding BV).

He has been a lawyer at Vinge Law firm in London 1985 -1987 and Senior Legal Counsel of NCC International in Stockholm 1987-1990. He is engaged at Leiden Faculty of Law in the Advanced Master of International Civil and Commercial Law since 2012. He is a founder and director of Legal Edge AB.

He is a chairman of the Fryshuset Foundation in Sweden as well as the Foundation for Entrepreneurship at Lund University. He is a board member of several companies including Avicii Music.

Christer Thordson is Master of Laws from Uppsala University and has a degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

He is Member of the Board of RWI since 2017.

About us

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is named after Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II.

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